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Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat (2007) is less a movie and more being shoved into a Party City in late September. It is a haunted hayride where you’re not entirely sure all the people on the trail are actors. It is lighting a three-wick candle that has a […]
Spoilers for all Dragon Age, y’all. I have always believed the world would be a kinder place if more people played Dragon Age games. It’s true that BioWare’s high fantasy series hews to a formula common to all their RPGs—thoughtful writing, beautifully-acted companions representing competing ideologies, and above […]
As long time Cultural Gutter readers will know, I love horror. Love it, live by it, curl up next to it to fall asleep. I still avoided Damien Leone’s Terrifier series for a long time. I avoided it for the same reason many people avoid horror altogether: ew. […]
When my dad died earlier this year, we hadn’t spoken in months. We weren’t speaking because I wasn’t speaking to him, which was less a deliberate choice than a series of panicked, spur-of-the-moment reactions. After decades of arguments and sour distance between us, in the last months of […]
One day, William Shatner will die, and every obituary will be for Captain Kirk. A paragraph or so down, they will mention his Emmys for Boston Legal, his numerous comebacks, T.J. Hooker and Rescue 911, and then go on to celebrate his diverse creative portfolio, his sprechgesang, his […]
They don’t make ‘em like Zach Clark’s The Becomers (2024) anymore. Maybe they never did, at least not all at once like this. The sci-fi is awed and hopeful; the horror is dyspepsia and Videodrome bodies; the comedy is full frontal deadpan; the romance is clear eyes, full […]
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